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Thread #155984   Message #3674609
Posted By: GUEST,Rahere
04-Nov-14 - 07:33 PM
Thread Name: Creative/Unique/Rare Topics for Songs?
Subject: RE: Creative/Unique/Rare Topics for Songs?
What you will NOT find anytime in the last 200 years is a Patriotic folksong. The wheels fell off that with the compiler of the first English dictionary of worth, Dr Samuel Johnson, who concluded that Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Oscar Wilde went further, stating that it is the virtue of the vicious. And from what we have seen ever since, they were right: it is the duty of a man to resist such as these. And yes, we are very well aware how difficult that will be in China: from the depths of Pu Yi you have a long way to climb to attain the targets your nation once considered estimable. This is what Hong Kong is about, I guess.